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Here’s all the news that caught my eye this week – let me know in the comments if I missed something important or helped you find something new!

Airlines + Miles

Air Canada announced they plan to end their contract with Aimia, the company that runs Aeroplan, and launch their own in-house loyalty program in 2020. Many questions remain, including what happens to existing Aeroplan balances and whether the miles will be worth anything after the transition. Aimia’s stock dropped 57% after the announcement. [Toronto Star]

Good afternoon everyone, Q4 is among us. With that, comes new cash back categories for Chase Freedom, Citi Dividend, and Discover It credit card holders. Let’s go through the list of categories really quickly, starting with the Citi Dividend Credit Card: 5% cash back at Best Buy and department stores. Most people will probably buy Visa Gift Cards at Best Buy. I would also like to mention that you can often buy department store gift cards for much more than a 5% discount by shopping on Gift Card Granny. Macy’s gift cards are 10%+ discounted, Sears gift cards are 6%+ discounted, and Kmart gift cards are 7%+ discounted.

Happy Friday evening everyone, hopefully your weekend is off to a great start. For those of you in the Orange County, LA, or San Diego area, please join me tomorrow afternoon for burgers, fries, and top secret manufactured spending discussions at In-N-Out (after all, that’s what a hamburger is all about). I will be outside on the tables wearing my Travel with Grant shirt, you can’t miss me!